We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Full effort is full victory.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.